July 23-26, 2013
Nipissing University

28th Summer Conference on Topology and its Applications

Dedicated to Professor E. D. Tymchatyn

Sponsored by the Fields Institute and
the National Science Foundation.

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You are invited to attend the 28th Summer Conference on Topology and Its Applications, which will take place on the campus of Nipissing University in North Bay, Ontario.

Funding for students and recent PhD graduates

Limited travel support to attend the conference is available for students and recent PhD graduates through funding provided by the Fields Institute and the US National Science Foundation (the latter for US-based researchers). Please apply by following the link below which accepts applications for both NSF and Fields funding. The deadline to apply for funding is May 23, 2013.

The conference will feature the following speakers, workshops, and special sessions.

Plenary Speakers

  • Gunnar Carlsson (Stanford University, California, USA)
  • Dikran Dikranjan (University of Udine, Italy)
  • Akira Koyama (Waseda University, Japan)
  • Lex Oversteegen (University of Alabama-Birmingham, USA)
  • Edward D. Tymchatyn (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
  • Stevo Todorcevic (University of Toronto, Canada)
  • Michael Yampolsky (University of Toronto, Canada)

Workshops

 Homogeneous Spaces – Jan van Mill (VU-Amsterdam) and Vesko Valov (Nipissing University, Canada)

 Coarse Topology with Connections to Geometric Group Theory – Jerzy Dydak (University of Tennessee-Knoxville, USA) and Alexander Dranishnikov (University of Florida-Gainesville, USA)

Semi-plenary Speakers

  • Taras Banakh (Ivan Franko National University, L’viv, Ukraine)
  • Phillip Boyland (University of Florida-Gainesville, USA)
  • Alex Clark (University of Leicester, England)
  • Valentin Gutev (University of Malta, Malta)
  • Kazuhiro Kawamura (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
  • Chris Mouron (Rhodes College, Memphis, USA)
  • Todor Tsankov (Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7, France)
  • Michael Zarichnyi (Ivan Franko National University, L’viv, Ukraine)

Special Sessions

 Asymmetric Topology
Session Organizers: Lawrence Michael Brown (Hacettepe U., Ankara), Michael Bukatin (Nokia Corp., Boston, USA), Ralph Kopperman (City College of CUNY, USA)

 Continuum Theory and Dynamical Systems
Session Organizers: Logan Hoehn (Nipissing University, Canada), John C. Mayer (U. of Alabama-Birmingham, USA), Lex Oversteegen (U. of Alabama-Birmingham, USA)

 Geometric Topology
Session Organizers: Nikolay Brodskiy (U. of Tennessee-Knoxville, USA), Alexander Dranisknikov (U. of Florida-Gainesville, USA), Jerzy Dydak (U. of Tennessee-Knoxville, USA), Danuta Kolodziejczyk (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)

 New Trends in Topology
Session Organizers: Tomasz Kaczynski (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada), James Keesling (U. of Florida-Gainesville, USA), Krystyna Kuperberg (Auburn University, Alabama, USA)

 Set-Theoretic Topology, Analysis, and Related Areas
Session Organizers: Alan Dow (U. of North Caroline-Charlotte, USA), Juris Steprans (York University, Canada), Paul Szeptycki (York University, Canada)


Scientific Advisory Committee

Krystyna Kuperberg, John C. Mayer, Jan van Mill, Lex Oversteegen, Juris Steprans, and E.D. Tymchatyn

Local Organizing Committee

Logan Hoehn <loganh@nipissingu.ca>
Alex Karassev <alexandk@nipissingu.ca>
Ihor Stasyuk <ihors@nipissingu.ca>
Murat Tuncali <muratt@nipissingu.ca>
Vesko Valov <veskov@nipissingu.ca>